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VOA and BBC World Service announce reductions to their shortwave schedules. Voice of America press release, 26 Mar 2013: “Voice of America is reducing some of its radio transmissions this weekend and ending shortwave broadcasts to regions where audiences have … Continue reading →

I Know that the time for this test is past but non the less makes for an interesting read. More digital text via analog shortwave broadcast this weekend. And there is a reason for it. (Updated: success.) Posted: 07 Dec … Continue reading →

Practical Wireless issues online There are six issues of Practical Wireless, earliest August 1964, latest August 1973, available for download on the Internet Archive. The editor W.N. Stevens was strongly against pirate radio. The April 1966 issue has an editorial … Continue reading →

Saturday November 3, 2000, Radio 4 The press fulminated, the enthusiasts were frustrated, and the radio manufacturers fumed. Despite the fact that Marconi had invented radio before Queen Victoria had celebrated her Diamond Jubilee in 1897, radio in Britain took … Continue reading →

The August 1 In Living Memory programme on BBC Radio 4 was on Sealand, the programme preview said: “In 1966, a former pirate radio broadcaster, Major Paddy Roy Bates, occupied a disused military platform in the North Sea, and moved … Continue reading →